@asvetlov After much consideration I think we should keep create_task in 3.7. While we know that there might be better way to manage tasks, we need to make asyncio approachable now. I'd like to rewrite asyncio docs before 3.7 comes out and focus on async/await more than on event loops and transports, and we need create_task as a sane and clear alternative to ensure_future and loop.create_task.

Good to me.

@asvetlov I'm confused about presence / absence of asyncio.create_task() in future (and present) versions of Python. Please explain current situation and what is planned.

It's present starting from 3.7
In future versions more powerful task group object will be the recommended API (most likely).